September 2, 2009

MARQUETTE - Upper Peninsula residents with signs saying "Tort reform not government health" and "Oppose Socialism" stood in the back of the packed Great Lakes Rooms at Northern Michigan University Tuesday, following the debate over health care reform.

"I think everybody, in general, is in agreement that we need to have some type of reform," said U.S. Rep. and Michigan gubernatorial candidate Pete Hoekstra, R-Holland, referring to a federal health care bill being debated in Congress. "What I sense and learned to date, what people are saying is we need reform, but we don't want a 1,000 page bill."

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